Scotland penalty for not moving away quickly enough, a straightforward chance for Weir of Glasgow... and over it goes...

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More mess at the scrum and this time it's an Italy penalty. Allan kicks to touch, it's a line-out on half-way. Good, bold defence from Scotland, Strokosch with a driving tackle... Italy come again, but it's wing to wing and not much in terms of forward momentum. Sarto proving a handful at the moment, the Zebre wing carving another opening, although he's burgled by Gordon Reid.

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Minto snipes from the back of a line-out before Benvenuti blasts through a couple of rather weak tackles. Sarto, now, goes flying through the Scottish defences and only a loose pass saves the visitors. By the way, you can listen to this on the radio by clicking on the link at the top of this page...

Scrum goes down. And again, and second time around the referee gives Scotland the penalty... Duncan Weir draws first blood from the right of the posts and not far out...

We have lift-off at the sparsely-populated Stadio Olimpico, rugby clearly not much of a concern in Turin. Scotland fly-half Rory Hughes with the first act, Scotland scrum...

Scotland are on a six-match losing streak and haven't won in 2015. As it stands, no team won't fancy their chances against them in Pool B of the World Cup, not even Japan or the United States. Anthems done, play in a minute...

Italy:  15 Andrea Masi, 14 Leonardo Sarto, 13 Tommaso Benvenuti, 12 Gonzalo Garcia, 11 Giovambattista Venditti, 10 Tommaso Allan, 9 Guglielmo Palazzani; 1 Matias Aguero, 2 Davide Giazzon, 3 Lorenzo Cittadini, 4 Quintin Geldenhuys (c), 5 Valerio Bernabo, 6 Francesco Minto, 7 Alessandro Zanni, 8 Samuela Vunisa,

Replacements:  16 Leonardo Ghiraldini, 17 Michele Rizzo, 18 Martin Castrogiovanni, 19 Marco Bortolami, 20 Mauro Bergamasco, 21 Marcello Violi, 22 Carlo Canna, 23 Luke McLean

Scotland:  15 Greig Tonks, 14 Sean Lamont, 13 Richie Vernon, 12 Matt Scott, 11 Rory Hughes, 10 Duncan Weir, 9 Sam Hidalgo-Clyne; 1 Gordon Reid, 2 Stuart McInally, 3 Mike Cusack, 4 Richie Gray, 5 Grant Gilchrist (c), 6 Alasdair Strokosch, 7 John Hardie, 8 Adam Ashe.

Replacements:  16 Ross Ford, 17 Alasdair Dickinson, 18 Willem Nel, 19 Jim Hamilton, 20 Hamish Watson, 21 Henry Pyrgos, 22 Peter Horne, 23 Damien Hoyland.

For Italy, Quintin Geldenhuys skippers the side in the absence of Sergio Parisse while centre Tommaso Benvenuti starts for the first time in two years. Grey beards Martin Castrogiovanni, Marco Bortolami and Mauro Bergamasco are on the bench. 

I should point out that this match is actually taking place in the Stadio Olimpico in Turin, not the one in Rome. Fooled me... 

Kick-off in Turin is at 19:00 BST, and we're going to concentrate on Italy-Scotland for the first hour, until France-England kick-off in Paris. 

Scotland coach Vern Cotter has made a raft of changes from the side beaten by Ireland last week, with second-row and captain Grant Gilchrist the only forward to retain his place in the starting line-up. Uncapped trio John Hardie, Rory Hughes and Stuart McInally also start.

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As for England, they welcome back full-back Mike Brown and lock Joe Launchbury. Brown hasn't played since suffering concussion in England's Six Nations game against Ireland in February, while Launchbury has been out since October following neck surgery. Skipper Chris Robshaw, who sat out last week's victory over France at Twickenham, is back at open-side flanker.

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Evening all, and welcome to our coverage of two Rugby World Cup warm-up games, the first being Italy v Scotland in Turin (kick-off 1900 BST) and the second France v England in Paris (kick-off 2000 BST).

Scotland fans need some succour following defeat by Ireland last weekend, while Italy - who beat the Scots 22-19 in this year's Six Nations - are without their magnificent captain Sergio Parisse, who has a spot of influenza.